San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-01-17
LATEST TELEGRAPH NEWS
From all Parts of the Globe, Con-
densed and Boiled Down.


Mr.. and Mrs. Lamar have returned to
Washington.
Sherman pushes work on wsterworks
and electric lights.
The NJ. Z. church, south, locates a col
lege at Vinita, Il.
The district assembly 49, X. of l.,
meets In Austin today.
Ross majority, as ascertained by Of
fetal count, was la, 252.
DR.. McGivern has been appointed CO.
adjutor bishop Of Dromore.
Clifford block, Denver. Col, burned.
Loss $l3O,0OO mostly insured.
Over go bills were presented to the
legislature at Austin Saturday
Emperor William is depressed by the
adverse vote on the military bill.
San Saba offers $50. 600 for any railroad
that will build road to that place.
Gov. Torres denies that he has small
pox; also that 1t is epidemic in Sonora.
The rumored death of Herr Luderitz,
the African explOrer,is denied at Berlin.
The state of Tamaulipas has pat tax
on the sugar crop rs it stands in the
field.
1t is predicted that Interstate COM
merce will pass the house by large ma
jority.
Laredo hopes to secure some smelling
works and real estate is showed up the
the first thing.
The attempt to increase the member
ship Of certain committees at Austin did
not succeed.
United Ireland accepts the apology of
tha nr,hl lin mill
the suit for libel.
Cardinal Jacobini who recently under
went a surgical operation, has had a
serious relapse.
The Nebraska train wreekers confess
that they wrecked the train to secure
the $17 600 bullion.
Dublin packet Banshee, with 300 pass
engers, went ashore at Holyhead in
sog. No casualties.
Reagan desires the credit Of the inter-
state commerce bill to help his election
to the U. 5. senate.
The coal famine in New York looms
up 1minously, but there is no prospect
of the strike ending.
RandalPs proposition to take tax off
tobacco and whisky will not meet ap-
proval OF republicans.
There is no change In the Austin sena-
torial situation. II depends entirely on
VINO talks what Is said.
The bill to divide this state in school
superintendent districts will cause a hot
fight in the legislature.
Governor Hughes, of Arkansas, pre-
sented the legislature his compliments
in very brief inaugural.
The coal of the Lampasas Coal and
Mining company has been tested and
found equal to Pittsburg.
The telegraph and postoffices have
been wrecked at Geneva, Switzerland,
by an explosion of petroleum.
Holman, the Indiana objector, does
not like the outlook for democratic
senator. He calls it gloomy.
Senator Maxey does not allow his an
tagOnism to Reagan to bias him against
the interstate commerce bill.
Pittsburg train robbers make an inef-
fectual attempt to rob freight train
but seriously wound the fireman.
Charleston steamer Seminole cleared
from that port with first consignment of
Birmingham iron for New York.
State penitentiary at Frankfort. KY,
burned. Prisoners are all removed and
locked In separate stone cell house.
The archbishop of Paris presented to
the pope an autograph letter and gift
Of diamonds from the sultan of Turkey.
The outlook for two elections for SEN
ator in Indiana is good. The outlook
for seating the democrat elected is very
bad.
Cardinal Ferrieri is dead. He was
born in FanO, Italy, on Sept. IA, 1910,
and was made Cardinal on March Is,
1868.
Mrs. Emmons, Of Washington, D. c.,
gets the best of that insanity investiga-
ton. Her testimony is clear and DANA
ging.
The house will probably refuse to
grant Mrs. Logan a pension. No new
developments in the Jersey City tobacco
strike.
The late prince imperial OF France,
left naturalson. This unknown fact
has just come to light, and causes SEN
sation.
Logan's book netted him 81 900
month from date of publication to his
death. Since then sales have greatly in
creased.
John Tobin, of Albion, Ind, beat his
wife into insensibility and laid her body
across the railroad track. She recovered
and he is in Jail.
The Pope has instructed the Irish
Episoopate to act with strict legality in
dealing with the agrarian question in
Its present state.
They snod assembly of the Lords Re-
formed Church has been summoned to
meet In July at Amsterdam for the pur-
pose OF recognizing the church.
Moroney, who sold his cattle, turned
over the proceeds to the Irish campaign
fund, and went into bankruptcy to avoid
paying rent has been convicted of fraud.
The course for the jubilee yacht race
will be around the United Kingdom.
They will start from the mouth OF the
Thames and finish at Dover. The field
| is open.
Speis, the Chicago anarchist. under
| death sentence, is to marry Miss Van
| Zsndt, tomorrow. If conviction for fell
ony entities to divorce it should debar
marriage.
A dispatch from Shanghai to the
Standard says: China intends to annex
islands in the Shanghai Channel, conse-
| quent upon England abandoning Port
Hamilton.
The governor of Herat has been sum-
moned TO answer charges OF secretly ia
voring Russia and fomenting hatred of
England among the Afghan people. If
found guilty he will be sentenced to